Personality category: 1900 books
by K. J. Gergen
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This century has been characterized by a strong and pervasive belief in "certainty through science. " It is a belief that has been nurtured by philosophers, scientists, and governing bodies alike. And, where vocal reassurance has failed to convince, modem technology has more than compensated....
by Nōnen Títi
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
What do quantum physics, cosmology, biology and psychology have in common?They’re all driven by information.Modern philosophy is stuck in linear thinking. But how can we come to agree about philosophy if we all use a different psychology to experience the world?In this challenging...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
This pioneering volume brings a rarely-studied population--wives and girlfriends of men who molest children--into the clear focus necessary to understand the dynamics of these disturbed families. Details of the study spotlight interview methodology, format, structure, and safety as the subjects provide...
Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis
Twenty-First-Century Psychoanalysis and Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This volume fills the gap in books dedicated to the ideas of ground-breaking theorist Juliet Mitchell. Essays from internationally renowned scholars address themes that cross-cut her oeuvre: equality, violence, collective movements, subjectivity, sexuality and power. Mitchell herself contributes a chapter and an afterward.
Like Son, Like Father
Healing the Father-Son Wound in Men’s Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Secularism and Religion in Multi-faith Societies
The Case of India
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This Brief looks at the illustrative case of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India, with the aim of understanding the dynamics of lived secularism as it exists in traditional multi-faith societies such as India. The data analyzed in this Brief comprise many interviews, conducted amidst Hindus and Muslims,...
Children and the Politics of Sexuality
The Sexualization of Children Debate Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
This book discusses already established accounts about the sexualization of children through a theoretical and an empirical framework which bring together popular culture, consumption, sexuality, selfhood and childhood. Adopting the view that the debate about the sexualization of childhood is socially...
Quality of Life and Well-Being in an Indian Ethnic Community
The Case of Badagas
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This book explores the quality of life among Badagas, an ethnic minority group in South India, as they navigate a society in flux, with specific reference to rural-to-urban migration and new media. At an empirical level, it reveals how Badagas understand themselves and the multifaceted changes in...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Proceedings of the XIV World Meeting of the International Society for the Research on Aggression: Prevention and Control of Aggression and the Impact on its Victims, held in July 9-14, 2000, in Valencia, Spain.
Aggression is an aspect of human society that has interested scientists for many decades,...
by J. Richard Eiser
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Expression of Attitude deals with a number of broad but interrelated questions: what are attitudes, how do they relate to behavior, how are they acquired, and in what ways can they be shared? The author argues that consistency, within attitude structure and between attitudes and behavior, arises...
Summary: Quiet - Summarized for Busy People
The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking: Based on the Book by Susan Cain
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
MISSION STATEMENT: Maximising selfconcept is recognised as a critical goal in itself and a means to facilitate other desirable outcomes in a diversity of settings. The desire to feel positively about oneself and the benefits of this feeling on choice, planning, persistence, and subsequent accomplishments...
Personal Liberty and Community Safety
Pretrial Release in the Criminal Court
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this enlightening study, the authors implement a unique research approach to offer a greater understanding of policy reform of pretrial release and detention practices in the criminal courts in Boston, Miami, and Phoenix.
Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies
Social Structure and Moral Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies: Social Structure and Moral Development combines insights of developmental psychology and cultural anthropology to examine the development of moral thinking. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of small-scale communities of hunter-gatherers and farmers...